While the world watches in horror as fires rage in the Amazon, activists are naming culprits.

“Put out the flames, we name your names — politicians, corporate vultures, you’re the ones we blame,” demonstrators chanted as they marched from the White House to the Brazilian Consulate on September 5.

A New York Times investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale University has uncovered another allegation of sexual misconduct that was previously unreported. Max Stier, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh in the 1980s, reportedly said he saw K…[Read more]

Ana Carolina Amaral
SÃO PAULO
Although illegal deforestation, burning, and land grabbing are often carried out by independent groups of large exporters, the profit that keeps the cycle thriving in the Amazon is supported by global…

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years away within the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), also known as the Whale. A bounty of…

Benki Piyãnko in his village, Apiwtxa, explaining about his work with agroforestry systems Carolina Comandulli

BY BENKI PYÃNKO SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
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Benki Pyãnko is a community leader from Apiwtxa, an Ashaninka community situated in the Amazonian state of Acre, Brazil. He has led projects to defend his community from deforestation and to de…[Read more]

A court ruled that the critical cartoons of President Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and his government–censored by the Porto Alegre City Council at the beginning of the month– can be displayed again to the public.

On the fourth day of Colombia’s trial of the century, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear three former paramilitaries and one of the assistants of former President Alvaro Uribe, who has been charges with fraud and bribery.

Witness #17 | “Castañeda”
“Castañeda” is a former mid-level commander of the Bloq…[Read more]

Michigan Police Officer Is Terminated After K.K.K. Application Was Found in His Home
A prospective homebuyer found Confederate flags and a framed Ku Klux Klan application in the officer’s house in Holton, Mich.

Officer Charles Anderson of the Muskegon Police Department in Michigan was terminated on Thursday.CreditCreditKayla Renie/Muskegon C…